Improvement in match-machine



2 Sheets-Sl1eet 1. E. ANDREWS 8v W. TUCKER.

MATCH MACHINE No. 92,415. Patented July 13, 1869.

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B. ANDREWS & W, TUCKER.

I MATCH MACHINE! No. 92,415. Patented July 13, 1869/ dinited git-shes Letters Patent No. 92,415, (mod July 13, 1869.

ndPROVEMENT IN. MATCEJIIACHINE.

The Schedule referred. to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it mien; concern Be it known that we, Ennnv Annnnws and WIL- LIAM TUCKER, oflortlnnd, in the countvof (lumberlond, and State of Marine, have invented a new and useful Improved Mut -h-Miwhine and we hereby declare the thllowing to be at full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable othels to make and use our invention, reference beinp had to the accompanying dmwings, ihrming. pint of this specification, iii which- Fignre 1, pinto 1, is in side elevation of our invention.

l igure 2, a detail of the stop-motion. l igrn-c 3, n. detail top icw of the clutch, with the lever and slide for operating: the same.

Figure dis at front view ot'the slot-ted disk attached This invention relates to certain improvements in a q in the luck to be filled, und resting thenron. reciproouting wedges, which wedges drop one slut down on each card, as ibis delivered into the ruck by the operution oft-he feed-plates.

it; further consists in feeding the iuck down, by

tion patented August 27, 1867.

Furthermore, our invention consists in furnishing the under side'of the teeth of the heed-plate with slight projections, which run in corresponding grooves in the tuhle, and thus keep the teeth of-thc teed-plate from playing in any direction.

{lnr' invention inrthermore consists in providing a ratchet-wheelwith as many teeth as there are sluts in the luck, the ratchet-wheel having a. disk, with a slot through the edgeotit, said disk being attached to the outer face of the wheel. A hair, with a wedge-shaped cud, is placed in suitable guides, and held against the disk h uspnng. The iutchet-whecl and disk are moved hythcpun-l over one tooth of the whee-1,11);- cnch stroke of the cross-hard; and us, by the revolution of the wheel, the slot in the disk comes opposite the bur, ,thv. bar is thrown into it by the action-of the spring.. By this movement of the bur, the wedge-end hcrcot' strikes a pin on a shaft, to which a clutch is gdgcs, attached to u c-ross-hcud,.tlms dispensing with v the use of the slotted feed-inn employed in our invenfastened, thus moving the shaft sufiiciently to throw the clutch out of gear, and so check the operation of the machine.

Aparticulur reference to the drawings will illustratethe nature of our invention.

A is a fifl-IDG, upon which the machine rests.

B is across-head, having a slot, 0, on its under side, into which catches the eccentric stud d, said stud being mounted on the upper end of the upright driven shaft 1 is the (h-iving-wheel.

' 2, the (hiring-shaft, operetingthe driven shaft c, by the bevel-gears g h, from which, it will be seen, u n ciprocuting motion is given to the cross-head.

The feed-plates i i are attached tothe cross-head, as described in our patent of August 27, 1867, No. 68,144, and their action in tal'ring cards fi oin the hopper and (hiring them through knives, is also therein specified, as well as depositing the splints in the rack.

The under side of the teeth of the fecd-phites j, ex= tend below the under side of theplate, and are rcccivcd into grooves 1:, made in the table L. These projections on the teeth always regain in these grooves, sliding backward and thrward in them, thus stifiening the teeth, by keeping them from bending either way, and guiding catch tooth to its proper place in the knives.

To the cross-head B are attached the swinging rods m 'm, the ends of which are hinged on the ends of the tappet-levers n n.

Sliding rods 00 are attached to the tappets by means of a pimp, fastened in the rods, and extending into slots 'q-q, in the tuppets;

The ends of the sliding rods are comiectcd by means of cross-bars r s, of which 1' isnigidly fastened, and s made adjustable, so as to move on the rods, and he held by any suitable device, such as a setescrew or key.

By means of the swinging rods, teppet-levers, and sliding rods, a reduced reciprocatingmotion, corresponding in time to the motion of the cross-head, is

imparted to the cross-bars 'r and 3.

Show wedges, t, are attached to the cross-bar a, and longer ones, '10, to the bar 3.

A rock, 3, such as described in patent No. 68,144,

' heretofore granted to us, is plaoedin the machine at W.

The slots are slipped up on the wires, and rested on the longer wedges w, preparatory to starting the machine.

The points of the wedges t are elevated above the. points of the wedges w, at distance equal to the thickness ofone slut in the rack, and'as the teed-plates udvanee with the cr0sshead, and deliver-Wont int-o splints onto the milk, the wedges t t are also advanced,

"and, rh'iven bet-weenthe two lower sluts in the rack,

wedges w begin to withdraw from under the slut, and

shorter wedges t are withdrawn from under the slats,

when they all drop on to the longer wedges w, thus being prepared for another forward motion of the crosshead, at which time another slat is dropped, and so on until the rack is filled, when it can be removed from the machine, for the purposes of dipping.

The wedges or bars '0, are attached to the cross-head, and receive motion from it, and the under side of their ends being bevelled, they slip over the slat last dropped by the wedges t and ac, and as they advance,'the r crowd it down, thns feeding down the rack, as described in patent No, 68,144, before alluded to.

The bar :vhas a shoulder, which rests against the edge of the disk y, attached to the ratchet-wheel z.

ihe bar is held against the disk by means of the spring 4.

ThebarD has an oscillating motion in'iparted to by means ot'the slotted piece E, rigidly attached to the eros's-hcad.

This is eii'eeted by means of a pin, 6, in' the slot. A pawl, G, is attached to the bar I); and as the bar vibrates by the motion of the cross-head, it im-' parts an intermittent motion to the wheel and its disk. The bevel-gear I: is loose on its shaft, and only imparts mot on to the machine when the clutch H, which is splined on to the shaft, is clutched into it.

When the machine is not operating, the shouldcr'of the bar a: is slid into the disk, in the groove therein.

To start the machine, the gears being in motion, the

b n a: is drawn out of the groove, .and the clutch shipped into. the gear. Asso'on as one or two motions are made by the (-1'osshea.d, it revolves the ratchet-wheel and disk sufficiently, so that the operator may let go of the bar 1, and it will rest on it-he edge of the disk, till the slot in the disk comes opposite the bar. The spring then throws the bar into the slotfand the end of the bar, which is wedge-shaped, strikes against the pin 1: in the shipping-shaft, and turns it enough to unclutoh the gear, and. the machine cannot be started,.till the bar is again drawn back, and the clutch shippcdand held as before.

The patent of William Gates, Jr., No. 11,860, October 31, 1854, is different from ours.

We do not claim forcing the splints forward, for the purpose of delivering them to the rack, but simply a means of keeping the teed-plate from playing in any direction, and we hereby disclaim a feeding-bar, projections, pressure-rods,gauge-block, and springs, as shown in the said patent. Neither do we elainrplaoing a match-fi'ame, for the pnrposeof being filled, in an upright-frame, which has a sliding cross-piece. containing a movable stop, as in the patent of A. Soln1,April 18, 1854, No. 10,805).

"We do not claim, broadly, stoppingthe machine at a desired time.

We do not claim feeding the rack down, as shown in our previous patents, December 2, I864, and August 27, 1867.-

What we claim as our invention, arid desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The wedges or bars 1', attached to the cross-head, and operating as and for the purposes described.

2. The arrangement of the ratchet-wheel cam-bar I), and clutch H, as herein described.

EMERY ANDREWS. I WILLIAM TUCKER. Witnesses :s to WILLIAM TUCKER:

WM. 'B. DAYTON, THEO. SNELL.

Witnesses as to EMERY ANDREWS:

HENRY '0. Housroa, WM. FRANK Sewer. 

